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by Sarah Monette
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Books via KJ
Books via KJ rated it 11 years ago
If a cringe could be personified, it would come in the form of Kyle Murchison Booth. He's tall, awkward, pale, and stammering. He's also the absolute last person anyone would expect to become a paranormal investigator, and yet.... When his old school-mate and object of worship, Augustus Blaine, wa...
I love books
I love books rated it 11 years ago
The Bone Key is a surprising book.Meet Kyle Murchison Booth, who works in a museum where he catalogues items. In the number of short stories in this book, that follow up on each other and show more and more of Mr. Booth’s life, thoughts and past, we encounter all kinds of amazing people, things and…...
Bookake
Bookake rated it 12 years ago
Let me start by pointing out that I'm already a huge fan of Sarah Monette. I love everything I've ever read by her. I suppose that could make me biased towards her works, but I'd actually like to think that it only makes me more harshly demanding. Afterall, if I've rated most of her other works 5...
Sesana
Sesana rated it 13 years ago
The Bone Key is actually a series of short stories, all about Kyle Murchison Booth (nobody calls him Kyle) and his encounters with the paranormal. He traces them back to a necromantic rite he foolishly helped a friend perform, which seems to have made him more receptive to strange things.In her intr...
Intensely Focused
Intensely Focused rated it 16 years ago
I really wanted to like this collection of short stories but it honestly didn't do much for me. Normally I love characters who love books but the sheer self-imposed isolation and timidity of the character was a turn off for me. I have a hard time connecting with characters who are completely disc...
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